Justin B. Terry-Smith has been involved in Gay and HIV Activism since 1999. He is a Air Force 9/11 Disabled Vet. Raised in Silver Spring, MD, he now lives in Severn, MD with his husband Phil. He writes an HIV/STI Advice Column for A&U Magazine and is a Contributing writer for thebody.com. He earned an AA in Communications, a BA in Political Science, Masters and Doctorate in Public Health with a concentration in Infectious Disease.

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Justin's HIV Journal: 28% of South African School Girls are HIV positive

According to the BBC 28% of South
African school girls are HIV positive.This is such a travesty.The
South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is stating that young men are
not infecting them but older men are.The South African Health Department put out this ad to engage the
HIV/AIDS epidemic.

What do you
think?Helpful or Stigmatizing?

Motsoaledi was put into off in 2009 by Former South African
President Thabo Mbeki.Mbeki was instrumental
in brainwashing a lot of citizens to believe that HIV does not cause AIDS,
because he himself was brainwashed by HIV Denialist and/or Dissidents.Mbeki also claimed that his administration did
not have the resources to send aide to all South Africans that were HIV
positive.

Motsoaledi stated that he has treated pregnant girls that
range from ages 10 to 14 who were also HIV positive.After he took office there were rates of
infection that were first greater than 678,000 but climbed to 1.5 million.In 2012 alone 260,000 perished from AIDS,
about half of which were from South Africa.

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About Justin B Terry-Smith

My name is Justin B Terry-Smith, I'm a Black Gay man living in Laurel, Maryland and I am HIV+. I've decided to share my story because I feel it's important that people who have unprotected sex know what they might be getting themselves into. People have asked me why I am doing this, why have I put my personal business out like this. I tell them it is to help educate people, to make them aware and to make them think twice about having unprotected sex. This is my personal journey that needs to be told to help the community.
HIV is neither glamorous or a rite of passage. Watch the Journal and think twice.
In the words of Pedro Zamora, "I'm not dying. I'm living with it"